hurrrr religion dumb, so edgy XD. why the **** do you have such a problem with it? a lot of people, good people, get their moral beliefs through religion. a lot of people seek comfort in times of hardship from religion. who are you to mock that?

That doesn't exactly justify removing it though. If they're got something that does one job, we shouldn't propose getting rid of it because he'll just improvise another one. We should keep that original something because it's already serving the purpose. You don't fix what's not broken. The path of least resistence and all that crap.

You do if people are using it as an excuse for something horrible though.
If we remove religion and people turn to chess club instead, what will the chess club have to say on not using condoms in Africa? Nothing, that's what.

Then we focus on those using it for violence and hatred, and preserve those who are being decent with it. As far as "the path of least resistance", it still holds. How would you intend to get rid of religion exactly? Outlaw it? That worked well for alcohol, drugs, and weed...

Hell, I'd never ACTUALLY outlaw religion. Aside from the whole caring about other human beings thing, imagine the damage to the country. People would not take it well and some of them would take to violence over it.

Yup. There's a slight necessity to it. While it'd be a colossal pain in the ass to get rid of it, and it sucks that it provides motivation for such retardedness, we can at least be thankful it has SOME beneficial purpose.